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You’ve been trying to get pregnant, but month after month you seem to be coming up empty. Well-meaning friends and family have started offering advice.

Stand on your head after having sex, suggests your cousin. Chill out and relax, says your best friend. Adopt a baby and you’ll get pregnant, advises a coworker.

So, what are you to do? Infertility affects 15 to 20 percent of couples. Are you and your partner one of those couples? Most infertility issues can be successfully resolved with help from reproductive endocrinologists, but there are couples who, despite trying every advanced technology for infertility (and perhaps, out of desperation, every myth and superstition out there), just cannot have children. Luckily, this percentage is small.